Endoscopic Approach to Maxillofacial Trauma

The article reviews the manner in which the endoscope assisted techniques is applied for “the treatment of maxillofacial trauma” and enlightening some aspects of these techniques and mentioning the experience of ours. Over the past few decades, “diagnostical imaging, surgical techniques and development of surgical instruments put forwarded tremendous progress in the facial fracture management. Having a bird's eye view over some authors, “endoscopic interventions” to “maxillofacial trauma” has become a usual method for the reduction of “zygomatic arch, orbital blow out, medial orbital wall, frontal sinus, and last but not least the sub condylar mandibular fractures” in the recent years. Substituting the open reduction with that of the reduction of “facial fractures” combining with that of an endoscope has boost the management of the patients with less complications beyond desire and more painless procedures. On the other hand, endoscopic approach enables to decrease per surgical morbidity helping the surgeons to achieve results somewhat true to expectations. Inkling to “endoscopic reduction” is represented by “dimension, extension and sites of the fracture and so the surgeon's perspicacity”.

The rate of morbidity along with the extra time of hospitalization can be shortened with the introduction of this instrument called endoscope in the field of maxillofacial surgery depicting the true scenario of modern health care along with the advanced section of biomedical engineering and research.